Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Germany, day 10: Sunday in the Dom

Although I enjoyed the service at the nearest church last week, I must confess that having a non-Catholic service in a cathedral is even better. The Bremer Dom (Bremen Cathedral) is also Evangelische, which is slightly more familiar to me than Catholicism is. From the two I've attended, I can tell that they incorporate music into the service much more than my Catholic high school did, to the point where the musician(s) have a designated time just to play music during the service, while nothing else is going on. This works really well with a 3-5 second reverb and a very good organ player, which was the case in the Dom. It was modestly awesome.

I could pick up that the sermon text was the parable about the 3 servants who were each given silver coins from the master -- where two invested and the last buried. I enjoy the contrast in ages and eras between sound equipment and a cathedral like Bremen's.

I had already finished my homework for the weekend, so I worked on putting Linux onto my flash drive. This ultimately succeeded, so I can now boot Linux on any computer with an Intel-compatible chip in it. And it still has 1.5 gig of storage, down from the 2 gig advertized.

Sundays are strangely sunny, especially after all the rain.

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